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Optical Data Storage (optical + data_storage)

Distribution by Scientific Domains
Polymers and Materials Science85%
Distribution within Polymers and Materials Science
General & Introductory Materials Science49%

Selected Abstracts

Superior-Performance Polymeric Composite Materials for High-Density Optical Data Storage,

ADVANCED MATERIALS, Issue 5 2009
Riccardo Castagna
High-resolution holographic gratings are obtained using a combination of a multifunctional acrylate (DPHP/HA), a low-molecular-weight glass-forming liquid epoxy-aromatic resin (TPMTGE), and a UV-photoinitiator (Irgacure 819). Their optical properties (sensitivity, transparency, and optical shrinkage) are promising for high-density optical data storage applications. [source]

A Novel Thermally Stable Spironaphthoxazine and Its Application in Rewritable High Density Optical Data Storage,

ADVANCED MATERIALS, Issue 2 2005
W. Yuan
A novel spironaphthoxazine SOFC molecule with a stable ring-opened photomerocyanine form by incorporating a ferrocene moiety to the parent spironaphthoxazine has been synthesized. Two-dimensional luminescence images obtained by confocal microscope employing fluorescence as read-out method (see Figure) and three-dimensional high-density recording using two-photon technology of SOFC-poly(methyl methacrylate) films are demonstrated. [source]

Multifunctional Mesostructured Silica Microspheres from an Ultrasonic Aerosol Spray,

ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS, Issue 19 2008
Li Li
Abstract Multifunctional mesostructured silica microspheres are prepared using ultrasonic aerosol spray in conjunction with solvent evaporation-induced assembly. Rare earth ion,phenanthroline complexes, magnetite particles, photoacid generators, and pH-sensitive dyes are chosen as luminescent, magnetic, and photosensitive components. The incorporation of these functional components into mesostructured silica microspheres can be readily realized by dispersing them in the precursor solution of the aerosol spray process. Luminescent microspheres that can emit at multiple wavelengths when excited at a single wavelength are produced by the addition of multiple rare earth complexes into the precursor solution. The addition of magnetite particles leads to the production of magnetic luminescent microspheres. Photoacid generators and pH-sensitive dyes are further employed to produce magnetic photosensitive microspheres that can release acid and change color upon UV light illumination. Such multifunctional microspheres could have exciting potential for many optical and biotechnological applications, such as multiplexed labeling, diagnosis, simultaneous imaging and therapy, cell capture and separation, targeted delivery, and optical data storage. [source]

UV-photodimerization in uracil-substituted dendrimers for high density data storage

JOURNAL OF POLYMER SCIENCE (IN TWO SECTIONS), Issue 19 2007
Brian Lohse
Abstract Two series of uracil-functionalized dendritic macromolecules based on poly (amidoamine) PAMAM and 2,2-bis(hydroxymethylpropionic acid) bis-MPA backbones were prepared and their photoinduced (2,+2,) cycloaddition reactions upon exposure to UV light at 257 nm examined. Dendrimers up to 4th generation were synthesized and investigated as potential materials for high capacity optical data storage with their dimerization efficiency compared to uracil as a reference compound. This allows the impact of increasing the generation number of the dendrimers, both the number of chromophores, as well as the different steric environments, on the performance of each series of dendrimers to be investigated. The (uracil)12 -[G-2]-bis-MPA and (uracil)8 -[G-1]-PAMAM were observed to have high dimerization efficiency in solution with different behavior being observed for the PAMAM and bis-MPA dendrimers. The dendrimers with the best dimerization efficiency in solution were then examined in the solid state as thin films cast on quartz plates, and their film qualities along with their photodimerization performance studied. High quality films with a transmission response of up to 70% in 55 s. when irradiated at 257 nm with an intensity of 70 mW/cm2 could be obtained suggesting future use as recording media for optical data storage. © 2007 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Polym Sci Part A: Polym Chem 45: 4401,4412, 2007 [source]

Oil-immersion or solid-immersion power enhancement of very-small-aperture lasers

LASER PHYSICS LETTERS, Issue 6 2006
Q. Gan
Abstract An analysis of the enhancement of light transmission through a sub-wavelength aperture by oil- or solid-immersion is presented in this letter. An output power enhancement phenomenon related to the oil-immersion or solid-immersion mechanism is realized experimentally and reported for a very-smallaperture laser, which is in agreement with simulation analysis. This phenomenon could be useful for future optical data storage, microscopy and lithography. (© 2006 by Astro, Ltd. Published exclusively by WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA) [source]

Synthesis and Photoresponsive Properties of Optically Active Methacrylic Polymers Bearing Side-Chain Azocarbazole Moieties

MACROMOLECULAR CHEMISTRY AND PHYSICS, Issue 1 2009
Luigi Angiolini
Abstract The synthesis of a novel optically active methacrylic monomer containing in the side chain the (S)-3-hydroxy- N -phenyl pyrrolidine ring linked to a 4-cyanophenylazocarbazole moiety [(S)- MCAPP - C] and of the analogous achiral monomer (MCAPE-C) is described. Both the monomers have been radically polymerized to produce the corresponding homopolymers as well as the copolymer at 50% molar composition. The photoinduction of birefringence has been assessed on thin films of the polymeric materials in order to evaluate their behavior as materials for optical data storage. Surface relief gratings (SRG) can also be inscribed over the material. The results are interpreted in terms of different cooperative performance and conformational stiffness of the chromophoric co-units in the polymeric derivatives. [source]

Effects of solvent, film thickness, and hydrogen bonding on surface-relief gratings

POLYMER ENGINEERING & SCIENCE, Issue 5 2009
Woo-Hyuk Jung
This work focuses on the development of a new type of surface-relief grating (SRG) using more effective materials than a typical epoxy-based azopolymer for the recording layer of optical data storage. Thus, aniline-based azopolymers were synthesized by reaction of N,N -diglycidylaniline with aniline (An) followed by diazocoupling with 4-aminobenzonitrile or 4-nitroaniline. Such azopolymers when spin-cast from THF/dioxane showed better diffraction efficiency than those cast from THF alone due to residual dioxane creating a large free volume in the solid state. A second diazocoupling reaction of the diazopolymers initially obtained produced polymers with bis(diazobenzene) substituents which exhibited a higher saturation level of the diffraction efficiency for a thicker than for a thinner film. Azopolymers in which the diazo substituents incorporated hydroxyl groups ortho to the diazo unit were obtained via the reaction of the diglycidyl ether of bisphenol-A with aniline or 3-hydroxyaniline followed by coupling with diazotised hydroxynitroaminobenzene. These hydroxy groups, presumably as a result of their H-bonding to the diazo-N, effectively prevented the photoisomerization of the chromophores, so that the polymers showed no SRG at a normal laser intensity of 100 mW/cm2. Polyurethane-based azopolymers, synthesized with toluene-2,4-diisocyanate and disperse orange 17 containing no hydroxyl groups in the main chains, showed better diffraction efficiency than the other azopolymers with nitro group substituents. POLYM. ENG. SCI., 2009. © 2009 Society of Plastics Engineers [source]